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GlusterFS is a scale-out NAS file system that runs over Ethernet or Infiniband RDMA interconnect. GlusterFS is now owned by Red Hat.

GlusterFS is a scale-out NAS file system. It is free software, licensed under the GNU GPL v3. It aggregates various storage servers over Ethernet or Infiniband RDMA interconnect into one large parallel network file system. GlusterFS is based on a stackable user space design without compromising performance. It has found a variety of applications including cloud computing, biomedical sciences and archival storage. GlusterFS was developed originally by Gluster, Inc., then by Red Hat, Inc., after their purchase of Gluster in 2011.

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Horrible performing RAID

I have a small GlusterFS Cluster with two storage servers providing a replicated volume. Each server has 2 SAS disks for the OS and logs and 22 SATA disks for the actual data striped together as a RAID10 using MegaRAID SAS 9280-4i4e with this…
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OpenX Cluster Rsync vs Coud File System?

I am working on putting together a cluster for openx and had a question with regard to clustered file systems vs rsync. Here is my current setup: -2 workhorse boxes load balanced to serve and count ads (using the "distributed statistics"…
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How do GlusterFS permissions work on Linux?

I'm putting together a horizontally scaled Apache/GluserFS setup. I'm trying to figure out how Gluster deals with permissions. I'm going to have several hosts reading and writing to the Gluster File System. I understand the basics of Linux file…
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Write but not delete

We are using glusterfs for our cloud storage needs. Since the partition is open to many servers, we would like to disable file deletion as we don't delete or overwrite any file. Glusterfs does not have ACL, so I need to implement this solution…
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Building for web node redundancy with load balancing on EC2

Currently we have on c1.medium webnode and an Amazon RDS sql server. The problem we face is that every now and then the webnode fails and the site goes down. I am considering mitigating this risk by running two or three webnodes behind an ELB.…
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Clearer understanding for glusterfs for replication

On server01 I have installed and configured glusterfs-server and glusterfs-client to replicate directory /var/appdata to server02. It seems that anything works fine, but I'm not sure that I understand the hole thing. Directory /var/gfs_appdata is,…
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How to organise storage for media content such as video and music?

Currently, we have a single server hosting all content: music, video and software. This content is downloaded by users through HTTP. Now free space is coming to an end and we are exploring different ways of extending our storage capacity. We want to…
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What techniques do you use to design and scale a web app horizontally (in EC2)?

Specifically I'm looking for techniques for scaling a web application which has no central database server, in the cloud, but general advice is great. I have come across GlusterFS, which looks great, but I'm not yet clear how it fits into the…
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How do I restrict some directories to some clients in GlusterFS?

GlusterFS makes it possible with auth.ssl-allow option to allow or deny access to given volumes for a given client, identified by its SSL certificate, but the access is global: either the client has access to the entire volume, or not. It also has…
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Gluster replication / propagation to multiple remote servers

I'm new to the concept of Gluster, and I think I'm missing some key knowledge from Gluster documentation. In my company, there are 10 application servers each with their own storage, and the current workflow for updating the source code, is to copy…
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sync apache2 config directory with glusterfs and restart service on directory change

I am trying to create a small 3 node ha cluster with apache2, php, mariadb with galera, glusterfs, haproxy and keepalived on debian 11. I want to sync the majority of config files (which are the same in their content) and use systemd.path unit to…
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How to remove brick from failed Gluster peer?

I have a host that is damaged and is marked as Disconnected in the pool list. To remove the host and replace it I need to remove the brick. Info of my bricks: Volume Name: myvol Type: Distributed-Replicate Volume ID:…
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GlusterFS not Sync geo

I activated GlusterFS synchronization with master/slave geo location. At first everything working, however elw does not synchronize new files, only if I stop and delete-sync-time. The number of changes appears in the logs, but the status is only…
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What is the recommended GlusterFS configuration for a growing website?

I have a website that is tracking towards 50 million hits per day average, and within the next 3 months should be over 100 million hits per day. We are trying to use GlusterFS v 3.0.0 (with latest patches as of 1-17-2010) Currently, we have just…
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Heketi - adding device with existing data

I have an OKD cluster with GlusterFS as a storage class and Heketi as a frontend. Everything works fine till destroy of the Heketi database. Now I can't make any changes to the storage, I can't add new persistent volume. GlusterFS still works fine…
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